| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
177.08 |
1.0944 |
0.3815 |
308 |
1 |
177.08 |
2009-11-22 |
| 2. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
176.86 |
0.9879 |
0.4501 |
450 |
1 |
176.86 |
2009-11-22 |
| 3. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
168.94 |
1.0795 |
0.3157 |
226 |
2 |
164.89 |
2009-11-22 |
| 4. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
168.25 |
1.0173 |
0.3860 |
268 |
1 |
168.25 |
2009-11-22 |
| 5. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
162.84 |
1.0379 |
0.3120 |
245 |
1 |
162.84 |
2009-11-22 |
| 6. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
161.59 |
0.8753 |
0.4387 |
427 |
1 |
161.59 |
2009-11-22 |
| 7. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
161.40 |
1.1016 |
0.2017 |
233 |
3 |
132.54 |
2009-10-12 |
| 8. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
157.38 |
0.9723 |
0.3018 |
364 |
3 |
130.41 |
2009-11-22 |
| 9. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
155.01 |
0.9675 |
0.2931 |
383 |
1 |
155.01 |
2009-10-12 |
| 10. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
153.31 |
0.9965 |
0.2410 |
310 |
1 |
153.31 |
2009-10-12 |
| 11. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
153.01 |
1.1018 |
0.1266 |
220 |
4 |
121.36 |
2009-10-12 |
| 12. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
152.70 |
1.0263 |
0.2052 |
267 |
1 |
152.70 |
2009-10-12 |
| 13. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
151.38 |
1.0445 |
0.1779 |
373 |
2 |
150.30 |
2009-10-12 |
| 14. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
148.32 |
0.9213 |
0.2758 |
295 |
1 |
148.32 |
2009-06-22 |
| 15. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
144.48 |
0.9697 |
0.1957 |
249 |
1 |
144.48 |
2009-10-12 |
| 16. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
144.20 |
0.9672 |
0.2023 |
396 |
1 |
144.20 |
2009-10-12 |
| 17. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
143.63 |
0.9622 |
0.2025 |
392 |
1 |
143.63 |
2009-10-12 |
| 18. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
142.63 |
0.9289 |
0.2190 |
204 |
2 |
125.24 |
2009-11-22 |
| 19. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
141.08 |
0.9527 |
0.1847 |
251 |
1 |
141.08 |
2009-10-12 |
| 20. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
140.84 |
1.0314 |
0.1434 |
452 |
1 |
140.84 |
2009-10-12 |
| 21. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
139.01 |
0.9593 |
0.1660 |
398 |
1 |
139.01 |
2009-10-12 |
| 22. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
138.99 |
1.0361 |
0.0854 |
269 |
2 |
127.08 |
2009-10-12 |
| 23. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
138.04 |
0.9233 |
0.1811 |
168 |
2 |
120.15 |
2009-11-22 |
| 24. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
135.40 |
0.9426 |
0.1517 |
317 |
1 |
135.40 |
2009-10-12 |
| 25. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
133.98 |
1.0289 |
0.0551 |
276 |
2 |
124.34 |
2009-06-19 |
| 26. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
132.99 |
1.0251 |
0.0442 |
261 |
1 |
132.99 |
2009-06-14 |
| 27. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
131.46 |
0.9359 |
0.1627 |
353 |
1 |
131.46 |
2009-10-12 |
| 28. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
126.75 |
1.0254 |
0.0361 |
217 |
1 |
126.75 |
2009-10-12 |
| 29. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
125.16 |
1.0349 |
-0.0279 |
234 |
2 |
120.91 |
2009-06-27 |
| 30. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
124.65 |
0.9532 |
0.0490 |
258 |
3 |
117.18 |
2009-10-12 |
| 31. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
124.25 |
1.0797 |
-0.0850 |
210 |
2 |
121.22 |
2009-06-30 |
| 32. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
123.70 |
1.0417 |
-0.0484 |
253 |
3 |
119.27 |
2009-06-27 |
| 33. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
123.33 |
1.0334 |
-0.0471 |
131 |
5 |
111.45 |
2009-06-22 |
| 34. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
122.93 |
0.9064 |
0.0923 |
399 |
1 |
122.93 |
2009-11-22 |
| 35. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
122.22 |
1.0613 |
-0.0726 |
456 |
3 |
119.10 |
2009-06-26 |
| 36. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
120.80 |
1.0419 |
-0.0698 |
261 |
2 |
116.19 |
2009-06-26 |
| 37. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
120.57 |
1.0885 |
-0.1149 |
315 |
1 |
120.57 |
2009-06-23 |
| 38. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
120.52 |
1.0829 |
-0.1115 |
288 |
1 |
120.52 |
2009-06-12 |
| 39. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
120.29 |
1.0515 |
-0.0854 |
250 |
2 |
118.49 |
2009-06-14 |
| 40. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
119.94 |
1.0029 |
-0.0442 |
209 |
1 |
119.94 |
2009-06-21 |
| 41. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
119.32 |
1.0799 |
-0.1235 |
243 |
2 |
118.77 |
2009-06-28 |
| 42. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
119.17 |
1.0429 |
-0.0854 |
259 |
2 |
116.33 |
2009-06-17 |
| 43. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
119.12 |
1.0529 |
-0.0946 |
351 |
1 |
119.12 |
2009-06-13 |
| 44. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
119.11 |
1.0483 |
-0.0929 |
227 |
2 |
117.12 |
2009-06-23 |
| 45. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
119.01 |
1.0596 |
-0.1042 |
239 |
1 |
119.01 |
2009-06-22 |
| 46. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
118.88 |
1.0399 |
-0.0782 |
294 |
1 |
118.88 |
2009-06-22 |
| 47. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
118.73 |
1.0565 |
-0.1038 |
247 |
4 |
113.65 |
2009-06-28 |
| 48. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
118.49 |
0.8919 |
0.0597 |
205 |
1 |
118.49 |
2009-06-29 |
| 49. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
118.41 |
1.0053 |
-0.0546 |
232 |
1 |
118.41 |
2009-06-23 |
| 50. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
118.21 |
1.0034 |
-0.0539 |
302 |
1 |
118.21 |
2009-06-22 |
| 51. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
118.13 |
1.0389 |
-0.0861 |
340 |
1 |
118.13 |
2009-06-27 |
| 52. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
118.13 |
1.0165 |
-0.0622 |
392 |
2 |
116.18 |
2009-06-21 |
| 53. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
118.12 |
0.9649 |
-0.0157 |
193 |
2 |
116.51 |
2009-06-28 |
| 54. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
118.06 |
1.0426 |
-0.0935 |
323 |
2 |
114.49 |
2009-06-14 |
| 55. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
117.74 |
1.0292 |
-0.0833 |
262 |
2 |
114.84 |
2009-07-01 |
| 56. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
117.71 |
1.0391 |
-0.0861 |
358 |
1 |
117.71 |
2009-06-29 |
| 57. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
117.55 |
1.0528 |
-0.1122 |
201 |
1 |
117.55 |
2009-06-10 |
| 58. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
117.44 |
1.1114 |
-0.1694 |
247 |
1 |
117.44 |
2009-06-26 |
| 59. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
117.33 |
1.0498 |
-0.1108 |
180 |
3 |
113.42 |
2009-06-17 |
| 60. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
117.27 |
1.0714 |
-0.1369 |
129 |
2 |
113.14 |
2009-06-13 |
| 61. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
117.03 |
0.9740 |
-0.0367 |
209 |
2 |
114.20 |
2009-06-27 |
| 62. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
116.87 |
0.9851 |
-0.0428 |
317 |
1 |
116.87 |
2009-06-14 |
| 63. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
116.54 |
0.9965 |
-0.0639 |
168 |
1 |
116.54 |
2009-06-28 |
| 64. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
116.49 |
0.9805 |
-0.0389 |
292 |
1 |
116.49 |
2009-06-16 |
| 65. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
116.24 |
0.9772 |
-0.0457 |
217 |
1 |
116.24 |
2009-10-12 |
| 66. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
116.12 |
1.0189 |
-0.0816 |
337 |
1 |
116.12 |
2009-06-23 |
| 67. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
116.08 |
1.0444 |
-0.1173 |
197 |
1 |
116.08 |
2009-06-26 |
| 68. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
116.02 |
1.0125 |
-0.0816 |
224 |
1 |
116.02 |
2009-06-28 |
| 69. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
115.95 |
0.9756 |
-0.0443 |
229 |
1 |
115.95 |
2009-06-17 |
| 70. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
115.71 |
1.0787 |
-0.1494 |
237 |
1 |
115.71 |
2009-06-26 |
| 71. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
115.69 |
1.0398 |
-0.1198 |
110 |
3 |
111.50 |
2009-06-26 |
| 72. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
115.42 |
1.0213 |
-0.0962 |
240 |
1 |
115.42 |
2009-06-16 |
| 73. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
115.23 |
1.0331 |
-0.1086 |
234 |
2 |
114.06 |
2009-07-01 |
| 74. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
115.01 |
1.0063 |
-0.0810 |
371 |
1 |
115.01 |
2009-06-26 |
| 75. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
114.76 |
0.9734 |
-0.0508 |
289 |
1 |
114.76 |
2009-06-22 |
| 76. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
114.56 |
1.0454 |
-0.1278 |
255 |
1 |
114.56 |
2009-06-15 |
| 77. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
114.55 |
1.0013 |
-0.0810 |
273 |
2 |
111.47 |
2009-06-23 |
| 78. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
114.34 |
1.0385 |
-0.1208 |
230 |
2 |
114.17 |
2009-06-26 |
| 79. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
114.22 |
1.0252 |
-0.1132 |
176 |
3 |
110.29 |
2009-06-22 |
| 80. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
113.88 |
1.0120 |
-0.0971 |
290 |
1 |
113.88 |
2009-06-27 |
| 81. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
113.85 |
0.9966 |
-0.0817 |
259 |
1 |
113.85 |
2009-06-28 |
| 82. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
113.82 |
1.0523 |
-0.1414 |
256 |
1 |
113.82 |
2009-06-26 |
| 83. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
113.82 |
0.9485 |
-0.0316 |
236 |
1 |
113.82 |
2009-06-11 |
| 84. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
113.54 |
1.0352 |
-0.1197 |
341 |
2 |
111.58 |
2009-07-01 |
| 85. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
113.16 |
1.0390 |
-0.1330 |
205 |
3 |
110.64 |
2009-06-28 |
| 86. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
112.97 |
1.0613 |
-0.1521 |
266 |
2 |
112.08 |
2009-06-16 |
| 87. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
112.84 |
1.0368 |
-0.1287 |
276 |
1 |
112.84 |
2009-06-14 |
| 88. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
112.79 |
1.0201 |
-0.1129 |
303 |
2 |
112.34 |
2009-06-30 |
| 89. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
112.72 |
0.9769 |
-0.0727 |
263 |
1 |
112.72 |
2009-06-26 |
| 90. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
112.55 |
0.9964 |
-0.0914 |
203 |
1 |
112.55 |
2009-06-28 |
| 91. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
111.53 |
1.0109 |
-0.1135 |
276 |
1 |
111.53 |
2009-06-13 |
| 92. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
111.36 |
1.0337 |
-0.1391 |
214 |
1 |
111.36 |
2009-06-23 |
| 93. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
111.31 |
0.9293 |
-0.0337 |
355 |
1 |
111.31 |
2009-06-19 |
| 94. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
111.02 |
0.9833 |
-0.0893 |
355 |
1 |
111.02 |
2009-06-13 |
| 95. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
110.99 |
1.0203 |
-0.1248 |
261 |
1 |
110.99 |
2009-06-22 |
| 96. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
110.93 |
1.0711 |
-0.1845 |
213 |
2 |
110.13 |
2009-06-22 |
| 97. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
110.86 |
0.9899 |
-0.1035 |
163 |
1 |
110.86 |
2009-06-17 |
| 98. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
110.77 |
1.0296 |
-0.1328 |
437 |
2 |
110.19 |
2009-06-22 |
| 99. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
110.59 |
1.0261 |
-0.1391 |
273 |
1 |
110.59 |
2009-06-28 |
| 100. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
110.35 |
1.0595 |
-0.1701 |
379 |
1 |
110.35 |
2009-06-15 |
| 101. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
110.31 |
1.0073 |
-0.1127 |
369 |
1 |
110.31 |
2009-06-22 |
| 102. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
110.15 |
1.0033 |
-0.1247 |
189 |
1 |
110.15 |
2009-06-15 |
| 103. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
109.32 |
0.9991 |
-0.1201 |
225 |
1 |
109.32 |
2009-06-29 |
| 104. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
109.09 |
1.0619 |
-0.1816 |
354 |
1 |
109.09 |
2009-06-26 |
| 105. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
108.85 |
1.0477 |
-0.1706 |
360 |
1 |
108.85 |
2009-06-22 |
| 106. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
108.46 |
0.9468 |
-0.0758 |
276 |
1 |
108.46 |
2009-06-17 |
| 107. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
108.43 |
0.9691 |
-0.0983 |
223 |
1 |
108.43 |
2009-07-01 |
| 108. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
108.10 |
1.0788 |
-0.2158 |
171 |
1 |
108.10 |
2009-06-15 |
| 109. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
107.87 |
1.0993 |
-0.2347 |
265 |
1 |
107.87 |
2009-06-19 |
| 110. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
107.82 |
1.0095 |
-0.1443 |
316 |
1 |
107.82 |
2009-06-13 |
| 111. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
107.40 |
0.9965 |
-0.1330 |
277 |
1 |
107.40 |
2009-06-10 |
| 112. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
107.22 |
1.0767 |
-0.2175 |
212 |
1 |
107.22 |
2009-06-20 |
| 113. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
107.21 |
0.9865 |
-0.1241 |
276 |
1 |
107.21 |
2009-06-12 |
| 114. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
106.56 |
0.9372 |
-0.0772 |
320 |
1 |
106.56 |
2009-06-22 |
| 115. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
106.54 |
1.0062 |
-0.1503 |
288 |
1 |
106.54 |
2009-06-22 |
| 116. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
106.42 |
1.0486 |
-0.1929 |
289 |
1 |
106.42 |
2009-06-16 |
| 117. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
106.29 |
0.9831 |
-0.1213 |
469 |
1 |
106.29 |
2009-06-14 |
| 118. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
105.08 |
1.0496 |
-0.2063 |
314 |
1 |
105.08 |
2009-06-17 |
| 119. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
104.86 |
0.9857 |
-0.1445 |
293 |
1 |
104.86 |
2009-06-11 |
| 120. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
101.80 |
1.0462 |
-0.2351 |
184 |
1 |
101.80 |
2009-06-17 |